While Bush cuts the budget of programs for job training the defense budget swells like a fly-bloated corpse. The pentagon has admitted that they can’t account for $2.3 TRILLION dollars. Trillion! Trillion! No, this money doesn’t just vanish. It’s not eaten by rodents in the walls. It is pilfered by rats of a different sort. These public funds, which amount to $8000 for every single person, could have been used in a constructive manner. Hell, even giving people an $8000 bonus would be more worthwhile than allowing it to be stolen by government contractors and private business. War is a racket, plain and simple, and this ‘war’ is no different. It is sick with the stench of profiteering. While the parasites syphon off more and more money a large percentage of Americans eat up the bullshit with a spoon. America wave more flags, put the plastic bag over your head and go back to sleep.
Above all, the American industrial-complex has a new enemy with which to justify its gargantuan appetite for public resources – the new military budget is enough to end all primary causes of poverty in the world.
Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, says he has told the Pentagon to “think the unthinkable”.
Vice President Dick Cheney, the voice of Bush, has said the US is considering military or other action against “40 to 50 countries” and warns that the new war may last 50 years or more.
A Bush adviser, Richard Perle, explained. “(There will be) no stages,” he said.
“This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there … If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don’t try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.”
Their words evoke George Orwell’s great prophetic work, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
In the novel, three slogans dominate society: war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength.
Don’t forget “evil.” If I hear that mufuka say the word “evil” one more time, implying that he is good, I am going to lose my goddamned taco. Who the fuck does he think he is to label the entire world “evil?” OK. The bastards who hit the WTC, they were evil in my book, no doubt about it. But just wait until the slippery slope bastards at the top start labelling you and I “evil.” Evil because we are not born again, because we doubt, because we publish information, etc etc. Aaaaaarrrrgggghhhh remind me never to comment before I have had all of my coffee.